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<h3 class="section">4.5 Your Program&rsquo;s Working Directory</h3>

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<p>Each time you start your program with <code>run</code>, it inherits its
working directory from the current working directory of <small>GDB</small>.
The <small>GDB</small> working directory is initially whatever it inherited
from its parent process (typically the shell), but you can specify a new
working directory in <small>GDB</small> with the <code>cd</code> command.
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<p>The <small>GDB</small> working directory also serves as a default for the commands
that specify files for <small>GDB</small> to operate on.  See <a href="Files.html#Files">Commands to
Specify Files</a>.
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<dd><a name="index-cd"></a>
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<dt><code>cd <span class="roman">[</span><var>directory</var><span class="roman">]</span></code></dt>
<dd><p>Set the <small>GDB</small> working directory to <var>directory</var>.  If not
given, <var>directory</var> uses <samp>'~'</samp>.
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<dt><code>pwd</code></dt>
<dd><p>Print the <small>GDB</small> working directory.
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<p>It is generally impossible to find the current working directory of
the process being debugged (since a program can change its directory
during its run).  If you work on a system where <small>GDB</small> is
configured with the <samp>/proc</samp> support, you can use the <code>info
proc</code> command (see <a href="SVR4-Process-Information.html#SVR4-Process-Information">SVR4 Process Information</a>) to find out the
current working directory of the debuggee.
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